LnD Club SCTCE

_Are you someone with a flair for the spoken word and a passion for the written word?_ 🗣
_Do you take pride in your literary skills?_ ✍
_Do you consider debating to be your forte?_🎤

If yes, then you're in for a treat. 😋

The *Literary and Debate Club* of SCTCE in association with our *College union* will be conducting the fourth edition of *'Ganesh Memorial'*, our annual Inter-college literary triathlon on the 17th of February.

A test of your literary might, *Ganesh Memorial* will be a three stage competition where personality, writing skills and debating flair will be what separates the best from the rest.
Spar with words and craft magic with language to win big in this game of wits designed to test your limits.

Participants are required to compete in a *team of two*. Ganesh Memorial will be *bilingual*, teams can use either *English or Malayalam* during the course of the competition.

*The rules of the competition are as follows* :

🔹The competition will comprise of three stages.

🔹 *Personeco* : The first round will require participants to enact a famous personality given by the organizers. Any one of the participants from the team can enact the given personality.

🔹 *Differing visions* : The second round will entail the teams being shown a movie clip. The participants are required to write their interpretation of the clip they viewed. Your creativity will make all the difference in this round. Any one of the participants from the team can write the interpretation.

🔹 *The Debate* : The third round will be a good old fashioned debate! The qualifying teams will be pitted against each other in a grueling war of words. Here, your facts and arguments will matter over emotions and raised voices.

🔹 The judges word is *final* and cannot be contested.

🔹 Participants are required to reach the venue at 9:30 A.M.

🔹 Registration fees : *100* rs per team.

🔹 Cross college teams are *not* allowed.

🔹 Participants must show their college IDs during registration

Date : *17th February, 9:30 A.M*

Venue : Room number 210, SCT College, Pappanamcode

*Prizes worth 6k to be won!!*💰

Any queries? Talk to us. 📱

*Akash* :9746084524
*Dakshina* : 9567412301

Debate report - Supreme Court's Sabarimala Verdict.

The debate was held in the seminar hall of our college on 26th October 2018 . The debate was centered on the topic 'Supreme Court's Sabarimala Verdict'.
The event was conducted in the presence of the staff advisor to the LnD club Sajith sir and students from our college who spectated and cheered the participators.

The debate was moderated by Akash Surendran (U5) and Dakshina Rani Ro (P7) who at their discretion restricted the topic discussed to solely the different aspects of the court judgment.

The debate started with exploring the legality of restricting women's entry to sabarimala. Participants delved into the judicial intricacies of the judgement and examined its validity with respect to the constitutional principles of equality and the right to profess, practice , and propagate one's religion. The debaters also discussed the reasons why this restriction to entry was imposed and examined the orgins of the practice. One of the central points focused on during the debate was why society continued to consider menstruation as 'impure' and whether restricting entry to the temple was tantamount to gender discrimination. There were also points raised on the dangers of secular institutions like the Supreme Court interfering in religious traditions. Seeing the climate of fear and aggression which permeated the sacred temple in the wake of this verdict, many expressed their fears of this judgment sn*******ng into an issue of religious strife and eventually culminating in violence.
The participants also put to scrutiny the chronology of the supreme court verdict and judgments relating to sabarimala. The open debate ended without a consensus formed due to paucity of time but it was successful in fostering a civil dialogue between students and making them well informed about the topic discussed.

Our intention while organising this debate was to provide a platform where participants could voice their opinions and become well informed about the topic discussed. Seeing the good response to this debate we feel encouraged about conducting similar events in the future.
We would like to express our gratitude to the college union and to everyone who attended The Open Debate. We look forward to your continued support.

Are you someone with strong opinions but no suitable platforms to voice them? 💭 Do you possess a flair for the spoken word and an adeptness at persuasion? 🎤 Do you wish for a stage where facts and arguments matter over emotions and raised voices? 🔊

Worry not, the literary and debate club of SCTCE in association with the college union bring to you The Open Debate. This debate will set the stage for you to speak your mind and convince your fellow SCT'ians about the merits of your argument.
Language is no bar here! You can speak in whichever one you are comfortable with.

Our topic for the debate is Supreme Court's Sabarimala verdict.

🔸 Rules

▪We recognize the contentious nature of the topic to be debated. This is why we stress that the discussion should be civil in nature.

▪Debaters must restrict themselves from indulging in political blame games. The discussion must be limited to the various aspects of the court judgment only.

▪Participants must refrain from using unparliamentary language during debating . Under no circumstance can you personally attack or insult other participants during the course of the debate.

▪Participants should not interrupt other speakers while they are speaking

▪The moderators word is final and cannot be contested. They reserve the right to remove any participant who does not adhere to the above mentioned rules.

As a participant or spectator, each and every SCT'ian is welcome to this event. We promise you an interesting, informative and fun debate worth your time. See you there! 😇

Date : 26/10/2018
Venue : Seminar Hall 1
Time : 1pm

For more details contact

Akash :9746084524
Dakshina : 9567412301

❤❤IMMORTAL LOVE❤❤

Walking down the aisle,
They saw her in white,
Tears rolled down from her birth-givers,
They had almost lost hope-
Of seeing her in a white gown,
None could deny her of her beauty,
She was the most adorable creature,
But faith had other plans for her,
As she stands besides the bride,
Rebrushing up her past,
She would have been his wife,
If he hadn't chased his second love,
The love for his bike;
His icy body was a nightmare come true,
Even after years down the lane,
She could feel him around her,
Thanking her for completing his duties,
He was happy to see his sister in white,
The magical wind of true love blows over the church,
As everyone believes that he still lives,
In her heart.

Lekshmi G
T1B

"Not everything that shines in the darkness are stars, Every warning system have lights"

Alex John
R7

The time has come, to unleash the potential of Forum for Change! Greetings Prospective Delegates. The time has come to a make a choice! It's the moment to bring back the vigour of being a diplomat and let the true spirit of UN gush through your veins, for the First Round Of Delegate Registrations are now live!

We look forward for your presence on the dates 6th and 7th of October with great zest!

Hurry up and go to http://mecmun.excelmec.org/ to register and make your presence felt!,

A child's dream

Within each adult there dwells a child, trapped muzzled because of notions, rules, and norms set by the society which distinguishes an adult from a child. Any expression from this ‘trapped child’ is described as frivolous behavior or as childishness or even immature behavior. This outburst from the inner child is often considered an embarrassment, judged as insanity.

Do we really ‘grow up’, or do we just act like we did grow up? Adolescence is challenging exactly because of this rhetorical question.

This question is an enigma, an unsolved jigsaw (because of the missing pieces, I guess). The only thing we know, at this stage, is that our appearance is changing, which any child would have obviously fore casted. But the emotional mood swing is like the strong wind in the raging storm. Mood swings which can make us think differently about our life goals. I have very little idea of how people overcome this state of mind. It's a secret-carefully hidden somewhere in the depths of an ‘adult’s’ mind. Or maybe because relating the experience would be a bitter one that it still remains a vague story.Bitter as they would have forced themselves to ignore the child’s call. And would have moved on, following a path quite contradicting to the child’s dream. This regret brings in bitterness to the untold stories.

During each stage of our life, we progress on changing our looks and attires. From a cute toddler to an innocent child then rapidly progressing onto a confused adolescent and then an adult. The transition is too fast, we rapidly change the roles that we play-often this journey affects us with the oblivion’s curse. A curse which forcibly erases the child’s desires. Are we forgetting or is it because all of a sudden the childish dreams seem to be impractical? Why do our life goals change? In this state of confusion, forgetting our inner child often feels like the right cure. Thus to overcome the qualm and the cumbersome adolescence battle and more importantly to win the title of an adult, we ignore our true desires.

The need to mask our real self for the sake of titles is pathetic. But yes the norms of the society is right in the case of shedding ‘childlike’ behavior. But the norms which cut off wings of dreams and aspirations of the child is devastating. It is often these childlike ideologies that culminate into the worlds greatest innovations.

It is time to break such notions and to unleash the power of the inner child. We started building our dreams and aspirations as a child, and so the child still lives within us. The child which craved to fulfill its dreams, which waited for us to grow up. Let us not discourage even the wildest of ideas. It is time for us to do justice to this trapped force within us!

-An Anonymous Friend❤❤❤

Oneself

The key to understand the world is to know oneself, everything else is reflecting the same light just like you and me. The only variable is the properties that we change in reflection, which is same in every person but at different proportions.

Alex John
R7

Darkness and Hope

After spending nearly an all nighter with my camera , I realised that even in the darkest hours, even when we can't see with our bare eyes. Light remains for the ones who are willing to look a little longer.

Alex John
R7

Behold dear SCTians,
Your time has arrived! Your voice will be heard. LnD club is resuming from where we stopped last year. We are welcoming fresh and budding penmanship, thoughts and nuances which will be posted on our FB platform for the world to read and ponder. From articles,short stories to one liner quotes, haikus and poems, anything can be sent to us and it will be assessed. Your thoughts can be expressed in any language you prefer.
Free your thoughts. Write down your mind and it’s caged dreams. Let us be your wings of flight.❤❤

PS: If you want to keep your identity anonymous,you can mention it in the mail.

Mail your entries to : [email protected]

ഉപയോഗശൂന്യൻ എന്ന് മുദ്രകുത്തപ്പെട്ട തുരുമ്പിനും പറയാനുണ്ടായിരുന്നു, ഇരുമ്പിന് ജലത്തോട് തോന്നിയ ഒരു പ്രണയത്തിന്റെ കഥ.
Kanith Mohan
T4B

Death

Age is the number that shows how close we are to death or how less it is to the inevitable death. Life is just a journey to it, Death is the destination that everyone shares, there’s no stopping it. Life is just a weird game where both winners and losers share the same result. Everything dies in the end, everything, living and life-less. It's like everything is made from the same material. Like if there's only one element and that's being split into different parts to form every element in the periodic table, if that's true then it justifies the death that everything shares. Death is the ingredient of every reaction, it is the element of life. what is death? Living being is dead when the living part of it is gone, in non-living death refers to the non-working/non-functional condition. Something created for a purpose and it's no longer capable to do that so it's dead. But actually, everything shares the purpose to die. Every beginning has an end. Death is the evolution of that product or person. Death is the ultimate evolution. Death is the very creation itself. What happens when something dies? Its broken down and decayed to join with the rest of the world. When a living thing dies, it decays and joins with the soil which feeds other life forms. So, without death there's no way a living system could survive. Life and Death are co-dependent, one doesn’t exist without the other. Death is the closest to life. It is the inevitable necessity that everyone forgets. Death is often treated as bad omen, it's often treated with sadness and fear, but not everyone understands that it's the way, it's the only way life could survive. So, if someone dies never be sad, be happy for they'll be the life force that drives the next generation of life. Death is not the enemy. It’s the ally that we never knew we had. Death is the cleaning process that acts as both a punishment and a reward. Death is punishment to the ones who have to live with the loss and reward for the ones who faced it. Death is 100% successful. It does its work all the time, but life doesn’t always. Not all life turns out the way it's meant to be. That's the beauty of death. Never fear death. Death is not the evil here. Death is our ally but everyone hates it. It's true that when your loved ones die you have to live without them, but you have to accept they are gone for the betterment of our world and your love towards them should never be turned into hating death. The uncertainty of life, always expect death. The only thing that's certain in life is death. Life is the tiny bit of light that remains in the dark universe that we exist. Death is very underrated.

Alex John
R6